Ardour 3.5.403 released

October 2nd 2014

Ardour 3.5.403 is (yet another) CRITICAL bug fix
release. ALL USERS ARE RECOMMENDED TO
UPGRADE. Additionally, ALL LINUX
DISTRIBUTIONS SHOULD IMMEDIATELY UPGRADE/UPDATE TO THIS
RELEASE. Distributing earlier versions of 3.5 at this
point is irresponsible and risks our users' data.

As with 3.5.380, this release includes several more absolutely
vital fixes for bugs could lead to audio and MIDI files being
irreversibly deleted from disk.

We still do not know precisely how
these losses happened - no user ever found a reliable recipe
to recreate all of them - but reports from several different
users did lead to a careful code review which uncovered some
potential for file loss.

There are a few other minor fixes and improvements described
below.

As usual you can download it from the usual
place, and as usual subscribers get this update without
cost. Thanks to everyone for their support (and encouragement).

Once again, the OS X release situation has still not improved, though
a demo 64 bit copy of this version is available (fully featured except that is has
does no saving or restoring of plugin settings, and no plugin presets).

Additions & Changes

New MIDNAM file for the Korg Volca series

Use 1-based numbering for MIDI controllers, rather than 0-based

"Show All Automation" for MIDI tracks shows all named controllers

Support channel NoteNameLists in MIDNAM files

amend the list of known video file extensions

New versions of jadeo and harvid for video work, providing better
compatibility with video drivers on various Linux systems.